Compendium

Tonight, while looking through typefaces appropriate for wedding suites, I came across this beautiful script Compendium. It was created by the same designer who did Burgues Script, another great calligraphic typeface. I really might have to pay the $99 and buy this beauty. Read a little about it here.

images via the SCOOP

Avoca

Mom and Dad brought me back some great things from their trip to Ireland--two wonderful cookbooks and some local pottery! I love these Avoca cookbooks (or go to the Avoca store). Mom said that Avoca reminds her of an Irish Anthropologie. They sell home goods, food, accessories, etc. The cookbooks have beautiful one-color illustrations and expressive type as image throughout. I wish I could find some photos of the spreads on the web---either that, or a working scanner--so I could show you the inside.

Typeface-Anatomy

Clever!

via graphic design blog

Memoriam

I really like this typeface Memoriam featured in my newsletter from MyFonts a week or so ago. Love the hairlines. Here's some background.

The tradition at the New York Times magazine has been to dedicate the year’s last issue to the people who passed away during the year, especially those whose lives have affected us. Art director Nancy Harris Rouemy, whose typographic design sense has earned her many prestigious awards over the years, decided on an all-type magazine cover for the 2008 issue, and commissioned Canada Type to do a new typeface especially for that project. Now Memoriam is finally here in retail form—not least because hundreds of people have asked for it.
Though a few other Canada Type faces were used in the magazine with great results over the preceding months (mainly Ambassador Script and Sympathique), Nancy thought a some of the ideas in Jezebel's uppercase and Treasury's lowercase would be a good fit onto an all-type commemorative cover, but with a much higher contrast and the infusion of a more luxurious and elegant brand of poster calligraphy that doesn't date itself. After a few different attempts, the first shapes were born, and six weeks later there were enough forms to do the cover. The typeface was such a success with the editors and designers, it was used all over the magazine, instead of just the cover.

MyFonts / Jeanne Moderno

I got my e-newsletter from MyFonts this morning. I like this month's new "rising stars"... Especially Jeanne Moderno, below.
Steve Mehallo, the typeface designer, submitted a beautiful series of posters (a few shown below) to show how many "styles and periods can be evoked using this one retro-futurist family."

Cool New Artist: Darren Booth

While researching hand-lettered and illustrated type treatments for magazine titles today (not many of them, by the way), I came across illustrator Darren Booth's expressive hand-lettering work on the typography sections of the How design blog.

I knew I had seen his work somewhere else, but I couldn't place it. Then, going through his portfolio, I realized it was on the Work/Life cover, a book published by UPPERCASE Gallery and one that I had wanted for Christmas.

The Girl Effect

I found this on Annie B's blog. (thanks, AB!) What a compelling video, not to mention nice typography. It was done by Wieden + Kennedy and Grow Interactive. Check it out. Here are some other thoughts on the video.

Lubalin

Beautiful image from the Herb Lubalin Archive in NY. Found at Double-Triple.

Free fonts from Smashing magazine

I haven't looked at the whole list yet, but the ones I glanced at look cool. Posting here for my own ref.

I fell in love...

...with a certain typeface named Archer. My friend Holly and I were talking about it this morning. I have loved it since it was released this spring, and she informed me that it was the typeface used in Martha Stewart! Now it's open to the public for purchasing. It's so friendly and elegant, especially for a slab serif.